BEHAVIOR

There's little difference
in ethical behavior between the churched and the unchurched. There's as much
pilferage and dishonesty among the churched as the unchurched. And I'm afraid
that applies pretty much across the board: Religion, per se, is not really life
changing. People cite it as important, for instance, in overcoming
depression--but it doesn't have primacy in determining behavior.

George H. Gallup,
"Vital Signs," Leadership, Fall 1987, p. 17.

In his book I Surrender,
Patrick Morley writes that the church's integrity problem is in the
misconception "that we can add Christ to our lives, but not subtract sin.
It is a change in belief without a change in behavior." He goes on to say,
"It is revival without reformation, without repentance."